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Created: 2025-07-23 17:20:38 UTC
3/8 Man who threatened to kill MLK snuck into one of his press conferences
An FBI report included in the release says that a man threatened to murder MLK during a May 1967 appearance in Wisconsin.
The FBI said they received a call from an anonymous male vowing to "put a bullet through KING's head." Investigators determined that man to be Theodore Adank, with local police saying he was a possible mental case who could have capabilities of committing violence.
Investigators returned to interview Adank in the days after MLK's death, but they uncovered no connection to the assassination. READ:
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